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Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by kolya3 »

This looks promising!

Two ux issues: 1. If I switch into another tab while listening to the music there is a notification sound every time someone says something new in the chat room. This sound is overlayed over the music which is somewhat annoying. The only way to turn the notification sound off and still listen to the music is by closing the chat room. 2. Once you close the chat room there is no obvious way to re-open it until you refresh the page and click on "More chats" in the lower left corner - a part of the screen I'm least likely to look at. Expected behavior is that the chat should just reappear where it was in the first place.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by yesimahuman »

grovulent wrote: post #5

This has 7 points within 18 minutes. Forgive me if I'm wrong - but isn't it a little uncool to spruik yourselves this way? I mean - fair enough if you had linked to a blog post highlighting some interesting tech you had used or something like that - but to a blank twitter sign up page... which I don't want to use... without even an overview of what the service does... that's lame. (even lamer to be vote rigging such…

I'm not sure what is up with the recent hostility on HN. This is an interesting service that is already launched (so your quibble about it not being news is kind of strange). The fact you don't want to use it and you consider the signup page "blank" means you could have responded with positive criticism and helped them improve the landing page.

That would help the community more as a whole here.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by kaerast »

benihana wrote: post #62

Didn't sign in, because I couldn't get any information about it without signing in with twitter. And I'm not going to sign into a site with my twitter account unless I know what the hell it is.

I don't see why not, it's not like the site is requesting permission to do anything with your Twitter account - they just use it to count unique users as far as can tell.

Mind you, that also means there's no good reason to require a Twitter account. Sure there's the excuse of authenticating to the chat system, but this doesn't really need chat in order to work.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by radley »

JonnieCache wrote: post #25

Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past. For example, where on earth does this fit? http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d or this? http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1 Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but th…

IDM

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by edna_piranha »

llambda wrote: post #47
JonnieCache wrote: post #25

Nice, but having such rigidly defined genres means you're going to miss out on the best of electronic music today, which is increasingly abandoning the genre classifications which have straightjacketed the music in the past. For example, where on earth does this fit? http://soundcloud.com/bleeky/r-s-d or this? http://soundcloud.com/raffertie/ergo-we-are-human-1 Sure, you can shoehorn them into house or techno, but th…

Off topic I know, but those are excellent tracks... Maybe somewhere else you could give further recommendations?

The first one is by Instra:mental - he has created some podcasts with dBridge (who used to be in a Drum&Bass group called 'Bad Company').

Unfortunately, those podcasts don't appear to be linked from the original site anymore, but here are the track listings for all of the Club Autonomic layers http://clubautonomic.wordpress.com/

But, if you go to their official soundcloud account http://soundcloud.com/club-autonomic-com , you can see at the very bottom that there are the first two layers.

Hope that helps!

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by r4vik »

nhangen wrote: post #60
alexkiwi wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth turning off quite a few people for our chat to use twitter handles. The conversation is quite different thanks to a bit of transparency.

Why do you need access to DM's?

it's actually a default setting on twitter for read-only access which is disappearing in the next couple of weeks.

Re: Console.fm - New social music site

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

This is pretty cool. However, what if I want to have a PRIVATE chat with someone?

It would be cool to send them a capability-based URL, or unique. sending someone console.fm/5thXv would take them to a specific playlist I've made while we can chat about it on the site. Etc.

Good work though. I like the look and feel quite a bit.

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